Overview
The Soil Information Viewer assists land managers and producers in making general land management decisions. This resource tool allows users to query soil information from the Agricultural Region of Alberta Soil Inventory Database (AGRASID). AGRASID describes the distribution of soil types for the agricultural land base of Alberta.
Go to the Soil Information Viewer
Features
The Alberta Soil Information Viewer:
- provides "user-friendly" soil landscape descriptions
- incorporates landscape images and a variety of spatial base layers including ortho photographs, Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) images, and ArcGIS Online base map services
- describes soil landscapes for land within the agricultural region ("white zone") of Alberta – approximately 26 million hectares (64 million acres)
- contains Seamless Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial data and relational data file
- offers elevation profiles from transects across the land
- is intended for representation at a scale of approximately 1:100 000
However, the Soil Information Viewer is not the sole source of soil information for detailed land management planning. Due to the inherent variability of soils within the landscape, site-specific evaluations for detailed site planning are necessary.
More detailed soil information is available for specific areas of the province in the form of scanned copies of soil survey reports and maps. Access this data and other resources here: Alberta soil information – Resources.
How to use the viewer
- Run the Viewer (PDF, 1.7 MB)
- Find Your Farm (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Know Your Soil (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Find a survey
- Know Your Land Suitability Rating (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Contact
Connect with the Ag-Info Centre:
Hours: 8 am to 5 pm (open Monday to Friday, closed statutory holidays)
Toll free: 310-FARM (3276)
Phone: 403-742-7901 (outside Alberta)
Email: aginfocentre@gov.ab.ca